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Gilded Age GroupQuest



Gilded Age Final Project



Vocab Quizlet Review





Vocab
write the definition and either a sentence or a picture

NAACP
SNCC
Black Panthers
24th amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights
desegregation
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Freedom Summer
Sit-in
Boycott
Freedom Rides
Brown v. Board of Education
Montgomery bus boycott
Greensboro Four
discrimination
oppression
integrate
March on Washington

important people- write down why they were important
Martin Luther King Jr
Rosa Parks
Thurgood Marshall
Malcolm X
Stokely Carmichael
WEB Du Bois
Lyndon B. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
choose two more people that you have never heard of that were important to the civil rights movement

Civil Rights and Cold War project
You have to include everything listed. You can do the ABC book, newspapers, mini-essays, or something else of your choice that is approved by me**
Should include the following:
-5 major leaders from the Civil Rights movement-biographies should be at least 3 sentences and picture
-Assassination of JFK and MLK- 3 sentence summary
-Cesar Chavez- who was he? How was he important to the Civil Rights movement?
-How were Hispanics involved in the Civil Rights movement?
-Emmett Till- who is he, why did he die, how is this important to the Civil Rights movement?
-Choose two events where peaceful protestors were attacked by either the police or a crowd-where was it? How many were injured? What violence was used against them?
-Greensboro 4- 3-4 sentences on the importance
-2 other sit ins that are important to the Civil Rights movement
-2 ways that voting rights were hindered before the Civil Rights movement for African Americans
-Freedom Rides- focus either on the rides in general or the violent attacks on them
-“I have a Dream” speech- you should provide an overview and your thoughts on it
-One other important speech from the Civil Rights movement of your choice- you should provide an overview and your thoughts on it
-The FIRST person to refuse to get out of the whites only seats on the bus (hint-not Rosa Parks)
-Find the first school in NC that was integrated and explain how the desegregation went
-Little Rock 9- who were they, how did the US protect them?
-3 groups that helped the Civil Rights movement and how
-3 laws that helped the Civil Rights movement and how
-Leaders of the nonviolent and violent protest groups and their purposes
-Vietnam War- paragraph overview- its importance, reasons for starting war (at least 2 pictures)
-Hippy movement- the beginnings of the movements, styles of clothing, other cultural differences between them and the rest of the public, how did they protest the Vietnam War (at least 2 pictures)
-Kent State Incident-paragraph and picture of incident
-Korean War- paragraph overview-its importance, reasons for starting war (at least 2 pictures)
-Cuban Missile Crisis-what it was, why is it important? why did it scare the US?
-Communism-leaders inside of the US and abroad, reasons for fear
-space race- major events, moon landing, challenger explosion, at least 2 pictures